Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter

Plates

Yelena Rzhevskaya in early 1942, near the start of her military service.

Rzhevskaya in 1943.

The German swearing dictionary, from Rzhevskaya’s interpreters’ course.

Rzhevskaya and comrades relaxing near the front in the winter of 1942–3.

Rzhevskaya and female comrades, May 1943.

The photo of the theatrical performance in the French POW camp given to Rzhevskaya, and its inscription.

Marianna and Alfred, the unfortunate couple in Bydgoszcz that Rzhevskaya tried to help.

Rzhevskaya and a group of Soviet officers amid the Berlin ruins.

Rzhevskaya and friends at the temporary Soviet victory columns in Berlin.

A tall German policeman, Rzhevskaya, and a diminutive Soviet traffic officer.

Rzhevskaya sightseeing in Berlin, with a German gun in the Tiergarten, in the government district, and at the Bismarck memorial in the Tiergarten.

The Goebbels post-mortem.

The conclusive diagram of Hitler’s teeth.

Dental assistant Käthe Heusermann and dental technician Fritz Echtmann in Soviet hands.

Rzhevskaya in the garden at Finow shortly before she was demobilized.

Rzhevskaya speaking in 1986 at a conference in memory of Marshal Zhukov.

All images © the estate of Yelena Rzhevskaya.